Americans and ants
Tonight Tim and I watched the movie Barcelona with a couple friends sort of on a last-minute impulse. Apart from the fact that it was nice just to casually get together with people at the last minute, I enjoyed the movie which was casual-dialogue-philisophical style .. otherwise classified as alternative .. or independent. You know what I mean. Hopefully.
The movie is about a couple expats in Barcelona, each with their own set of quirks and oddities; and in particular, the European view of Americans seems to come up a lot in the dialogue. At one point, the following analogy was made which I found quite insightful:
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